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Food in China: Volumes Up, Quality Down?

by Antonia Menapace

The Food Supply Debate in the People’s Republic of China

Food supply policies include food security (ensuring adequate quantities of food), and food safety (ensuring that the food is of sufficiently high quality). The Communist Party has traditionally seen quantity as being the key issue. The bleak years of Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” and the Cultural Revolution are still fresh in many people’s memories.

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